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A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Weekly sermon content from Manito Presbyterian Church in Spokane, WA. Whatever your past experience church has or has not been, you are invited to be a part of our conversations and happenings. We live in confusing, divisive, isolating times and it is our prayer that you will experience authentic hope in the midst of it all.
Episodes
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Strong Women of the Bible
Guest speaker Debbie Cato
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Strong Woman of the Bible
The Samaritan woman and how a conversation at well changes her life.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Lord's Prayer
How did Jesus pray? How might we pray today? In the Lord's Prayer Jesus challenges God to take charge, to bring in his Kingdom. The plea then becomes a mandate…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Faithful Resolve
"I wish it need not have happened in my time, " said Frodo. "So do I, " Said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times, But that is not for them to…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Connecting Your Faith
The Bile calls us to a faith of connecting. Connecting to God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And connecting us to one another.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Rest for the Weary
Jesus invites us to put our concerns and burdens on Him and offers us rest.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Rebuilding the Altar
Rebuilding one's spiritual altar requires a conscious return to authentic worship, prayer, and personal integrity. As believers, let us intentionally restore…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Healer
Jesus heals us in unexpected ways - not always the way we pray or the way we think we need healing. Speaker Debbie Cato
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Loneliness of Christ
Guest speaker Maria KulpFar from shielding us from loneliness, the gospel promises instead offer us a God who has inhabited that same interior desolation…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love That Holds Fast
Nothing can separate us from love.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
When Knowing Becomes Love
Love, not knowledge, is the measure of mature faith and the true builder of the church.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love That Forms a People
Love creates a community for the world
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love Poured Out
Love as embodied, liberating service.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love that Suffers
Theme: Love enters death and calls forth life.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love Fulfills the Law
Love as the heart of covenant life.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Love Revealed
Theme: Love begins with God's Choosing.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Grace of God
Easter proclaims that even deth does not have the final word.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Being People of the Way
The way of Christ—and therefore the way to Good Friday and Easter—runs downward through obedience and the cross before it rises by God’s act of resurrection…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Long Memory of Grace
The wilderness warns against complacency while we trust in God’s enduring faithfulness to lead us forward
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Freedom with a Pulse
Christian freedom is reshaped by belonging to God with our whole lives, including our bodies.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Dwelling Made of People
Because God dwells among us, how we treat the community becomes a matter of holiness.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
God’s Growth
Christian growth belongs to God, freeing the church to practice faithfulness without anxiety about results.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
How God uses our cracks to break in
Ash Wednesday invites us to lean into the joy of our salvation by embracing our cracks.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Stuck in a Moment
God’s true glory is revealed not through judgment or display, but through faithful stewardship of mysteries entrusted to us.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Seeing with Borrowed Eyes
The Spirit forms the church to see the world through the cruciform wisdom of Christ rather than through human certainty.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Faith endures not because it is impressive, but because it rets on God's self-giving power revealed in Christ crucified.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Wisdom Unkept
God chooses what the world dismisses to reveal a wisdom grounded in grace rather than power.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Still Learning: Wisdom, Unity, and the Courage to Grow
In a world full of chaos, our call is to see the world through the eyes of Christ alone to find unity as the body of Christ.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Sharing Wisdom: Connecting the Generations
"Everyone 'neath your vine and fig tree shall live in peace and unafraid."
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Wake up!
"There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!" - Archbishop Fulton Sheen
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Transfigurations and Transformations
Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world. – C.S. Lewis
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Not for Us, but With Us
It was God-With-Us. Not the God-Up-There somewhere who answers our prayers by lifting us out of our lives, but the God who comes to us in the midst of…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Joy for the Joyless
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Picturing Peace
It is Christmas time, a halting of hate time. On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. –Maya…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Already, but Not Yet
The Gospel reveals that life is always a mixed bag, but a good mixed bag. The kingdom “does not admit of [full] observation” here. Only in eternity are all…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Being Witnesses
We may find ourselves in social or political contexts that block any attempt at dialogue. Such situations challenge us to persevere in our efforts to create…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Leading with Love
True Christianity is growth in the life of the Spirit, a deepening of the new life, a continuous rebirth, in which the exterior and superficial life of the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Dialogue as Discipleship
God is a missionary God; God’s mission has a church. Focusing primarily on the church’s mission without a larger discernment of the church’s identity with…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Seeing as God Sees
Focus: Discernment is more than gathering and analyzing data. Discernment develops the capacity to perceive where God is at work in the global and local…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Embracing Fragility
An awareness is growing that humanity is living through a profound change of epoch. The consequences of this change sometimes take us by surprise. We must…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Ground of Hope
Because we live with hope, we are able to see that what appears to the ordinary eye to be impossible, is possible when we allow the love of God to work in…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
God and Gaslighting
We seem to be faced with a fundamental choice of whether we are going to fully embrace the reality that God has placed before us, or choose to believe and act…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
God’s Initiative
Typically, we are blind to countless evidence of God’s grace; by nature, we are so dull and rebellious of heart that we take for granted our creation…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Teach us to Pray Like…
Western culture has tended to be an extroverted culture and a “can-do” culture. Prayer too easily became an attempt to change God and aggrandize ourselves…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Time to Choose
Sermon by guest speaker Steve Blewett
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
And God Changed God's Mind
And God Changed God's Mind
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reconciliation
Taking a look at what that means for each and every one of us.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Blanket of Grace
Sermon by guest speaker John Owen.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Life of Faith in God's New Creation
The Life of Faith in God's New Creation
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
For God So Loved the World
Guest speaker John Yoder
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
From Articulation to Transformation
Over time, God transforms our desire to control and exert power over others into a spiritual will to use power for the benefit of others, especially for the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
"Be Strong"
Sermon by guest speaker Rev. Woody Garvin
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Danger of Playing It Safe
Sermon by guest speaker Rev. John Owen